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Rhodes is disputing charges that he worked with a friend, 52-year-old Eddie Tipton, to try to claim the Hot Lotto jackpot.

Tipton was security director for the Multi-State Lottery Association, an Iowa-based group that operates Powerball and Hot Lotto for state lotteries.

Prosecutors say Tipton may have inserted a software program that manipulated the random number generator for Hot Lotto. They say Tipton bought the winning ticket, and Rhodes and others later tried to claim it.